Hassan Ali, also known as ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ rapper Top 5, was stabbed in the leg by a mob that surrounded his vehicle in London, U.K., hours after he attended a concert by fellow ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½nian Drake, police have confirmed.
Hassan Ali, also known as ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ rapper Top 5, was stabbed in the leg by a mob that surrounded his vehicle in London, U.K., hours after he attended a concert by fellow ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½nian Drake, police have confirmed.
Hassan Ali, also known as ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ rapper Top 5, was stabbed in the leg by a mob that surrounded his vehicle in London, U.K., hours after he attended a concert by fellow ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½nian Drake, police have confirmed.
Police were called to the area after midnight Monday for reports of a stabbing.
“The victim, a man in his 20s, was approached by a group who damaged his car before stabbing him in the leg. He was taken to hospital and his injuries are not believed to be life-changing,” Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
Hassan Ali, the underground ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ rapper Top 5, has been released on bail on firearm
London tabloid websites linked to cellphone footage showing a group of men climbing onto a white Mercedes and stomping on the windshield, before several men kicked the driver while onlookers recorded the frightening scene with their phones.
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On Sunday, Ali, 27, posted clips of himself watching Drake’s set from a VIP section near the stage at the three-day Wireless Festival at Finsbury Park in North London.
Ali is currently facing firearms possession charges in ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ where the case was in zoom court Monday. Last fall, the prosecution withdrew a first-degree murder charge after a judge excluded crucial prosecution evidence, including his social media posts, videos and lyrics. After Ali walked out of court a free man, he suggested Drake had paid his legal bill and posted a photo on Instagram praising his lawyer, Gary Grill, for being “the best lawyer in ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½.”
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However, Grill confirmed he is no longer representing Ali and a different lawyer told the judge on Monday her firm is in the process of being retained.
After his arrest earlier this year, Ali was initially released on bail with electronic ankle monitoring, a curfew, and order to live with his parents. However, Grill told the Star that Ali’s bail conditions were changed so there was nothing preventing him from being in the United Kingdom.
He has a reputation for using social media to stoke feuds with other rappers and in 2021 was ordered to stay off the internet as a condition of his bail. After the stabbing, there was online speculation about whether Ali could have incited the attack after saying on a live stream “there is no real killers in London.”
Betsy Powell is a ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½-based reporter covering crime and
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